Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
- Preface and Acknowledgments (page xi)
- INTRODUCTION The Concept of Quarantine (page 1)
- PART I AVERTING A PESTILENCE The Typhus Fever Epidemic on New York's Lower East Side (page 13)
- PART II "CHOLERA MAY KNOCK, BUT IT WON'T GET IN!" Cholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York Harbor (page 83)
- PART III LEGISLATING QUARANTINE Attempting to Restrict Immigration as a Cholera Preventive (page 135)
- EPILOGUE "The Microbe as Social Leveller" (page 183)
- Notes (page 195)
- Index (page 253)